WEEK NINE SBL PICKS
Courtesy of your benevolent league president
PJ & THE LADIES- 19
NAPPY HEADED HOS- 12
Let’s face it, with Clayton, this is an entirely different Ladies team. One should fully expect Dennis Lackey to be around too, and a lineup of Clayton, Lackey, Weisberg and Knight is pretty damn intimidating. A lot scarier than Mcclelland, Smith, Jamie Moroco and Jeanne Mentrek, anyway. Coming off a pair of 15-run wins, the Ladies are peaking at just the right time, and I definitely wouldn’t want to play this team right now.
PJ & THE LADIES- 22
HOT FUZZ- 20
The way these teams are playing right now, this is a toss up. B.Frank and company are coming off a very up and down week that saw them lose a big game against the Wiggles, then rebound to dispatch of archrivals KTO. If everything clicks for Fuzz, they should win, unless the Ladies are clicking like they did last week. IF the hammer and sickle continue to play like they did at Buttsex Ballpark, there isn’t a team in the SBL that can hang with them.
THE SPARKLING WIGGLES- 17
THE SCREAMIN’ SEAGULLS- 10
Perhaps the only team in the SBL riding higher than the Ladies right now are the Wiggles, who have come out of nowhere to win 7 of 8 and climb into position to gain a bye to the finals. The only blemish on their record over the last 4 weeks? A loss at the hands of the Seagulls a few weeks back in which the Wiggles played slightly south of shitty. They’ll be looking for some sweet revenge, and the Seagulls are coming off a heartbreaking loss and probably don’t have the tools to take two from the SW in the same season.
THE SCREAMIN SEAGULLS- 11
JUKEBOX HERO- 6
When your team is in need of a win, Jukebox hero is just what the doctor ordered. Assuming there are enough lesser talents in attendance this weekend, the JBH squad the Seagulls see should be full of them. However, this game could be huge if the Seagulls have already lost one this week, as a loss to the Heroes would put them in danger of missing the playoffs. Nobody wants to play a gimme game under that kind of pressure.
THE SPARKLING WIGGLES- 19
KATHLEEN TURNER OVERDRIVE- 17
While this game at first glance comes down to Tomko-Shernisky and who plays better, right now the Wiggles as a whole are the superior team and that should be the difference. The two biggest guns in the SBL will pretty much cancel each other out, assuming one doesn’t have an extremely off day, I’d take Katie Kelly and Pat Lackey over Kip Corbett and Greg Lackey right now. Hell, a few weeks back the SW upended KTO while Tomko stunk it up.
HOT FUZZ- 15
JUKEBOX HERO- 10
If Fuzz loses to the Ladies in one of the more highly anticipated games of the week, they should get a cake Jukebox team and walk all over them. However, if they somehow get by the Ladies unscathed, you can bet they’ll be some pretty big names suiting up in yellow mesh to help the rest of the SBL catch up with the Fuzz.
THE NAPPY HEADED HOS- 13
TEAM DOUBLE STUFF- 8
Double Stuff is just in disarray right now. They’ve pretty much fallen off the map, and are in real danger of getting passed by all three American conference squads by Sunday night. IF Ben, Biddle and Dank are in attendance this weekend, they’ve got the tools to pull out the duke, though it’s far from a sure thing even if they do show up. Without her big three, Aryn must continue to rely on Jamie and Bob, and while all three have certainly fought valiantly all season, the fact is that they’re just not big, deep or good enough to consistently get into the W column.
TEAM DOUBLE STUFF- 9
KATHLEEN TURNER OVERDRIVE- 6
In my upset special of the week, I’m picking Stuff to squeak by the Overdrive. If all goes according to my predictions above, we’ll have a battle between the two teams in the league on the longest losing streaks, and in games like that, anything can happen. Sherry is due for a bad game, and those usually seem to happen against the worst teams. I’m thinking Aryn, Spohnny and J.Fabes put it all together for one game to stop their freefall and seriously put a damper on the Overdrive’s hopes of a bye.